Getting bored of Game Of Thrones? Only another forty episodes to go

Game Of Thrones will run for seven seasons, says show runners (Picture: HBO)

We’re three seasons in and Game Of Thrones is showing no signs of slowing after showrunners confirmed a further 40 episodes are in the pipeline.

With the HBO series’ fourth season kicking off on Sky Atlantic next month, David Benioff and Dan Weiss have revealed they’re planning to call it a day after series seven.

‘It feels like this is the midpoint for us,’ said David. ‘If we’re going to go seven seasons, which is the plan, season four is right down the middle, the pivot point.

‘It’s the goal we’ve had from the beginning,’ he continued. ‘It was our unstated goal, because to start on a show and say your goal is seven seasons is the height of lunacy.

‘Seven gods, seven kingdoms, seven seasons. It feels right to us. I hate to sound greedy, but our longest shows have gone seven or eight seasons, so seven is a nice long run for us,’ he added to Entertainment Weekly.